RSS framework doesn't pick up item_author_name

[jaanus@…]

Code:

class LatestFeed(Feed):
    title = 'Chat feed title'
    link = 'http://www.example.com'
    description = 'Chat feed'
    def get_object(self, bits):
        if len(bits) != 1:
            raise ObjectDoesNotExist
        return chats.get_object(name__exact=bits[0])
    def items(self, obj):
        return messages.get_list(chatname__exact=obj.name, order_by=('-timestamp',), limit=50)
    def item_pubdate(self, item):
        return item.timestamp
    def item_author_name(self, item):
        return item.from_dispname

output:

<item>
  <title>title is fine here</title> 
  <link>http://the_link_is_fine.com</link> 
  <description>here's some text</description> 
  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:15:58 -0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://the_link_is_fine.com</guid> 
  </item>

no trace of author in the output???

[k.shaposhnikov@…]

This is because of following code in feedgenerator.py (Rss201rev2Feed class):

            # Author information.
            if item['author_email'] is not None and item['author_name'] is not None:
                handler.addQuickElement(u"author", u"%s (%s)" % \
                    (item['author_email'], item['author_name']))

As you can see you should specify both author_email and author_name for your item, at least if you want to generate RSS 2.0 feed.

I am not sure what is the best way to fix it, so I won't provide patch.

RSS specification (​http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltauthorgtSubelementOfLtitemgt) describes behavior that implemented in Django. But probably it is valid if author element contains only name or only email.

[Adrian Holovaty]

Django follows the spec, so I'm marking this as invalid.

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